Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt

Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt , b. Kühnbaum (born September 24, 1964 in Braunschweig ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman . Since April 1, 2019, she has been the regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . She was introduced to her office on Whit Monday, June 10, 2019, in a festive service in Schwerin Cathedral by Ralf Meister , the leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany and regional bishop of Hanover.

Life

Kristina Kühnbaum grew up in Sickte near Braunschweig. She studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen and the Church University of Berlin . From 1990 to 1992 she was a university assistant for modern and contemporary church history and a research assistant at Gerhard Besier in Berlin . In this capacity she was among other things responsible for the creation of the bibliography on ecclesiastical and general contemporary history in the journal Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte . In 1990 she passed her first and in 1995 her second theological exam. In 1995 she was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig . From 1995 to 2002 she worked as a pastor for the Wicherngemeinde in Lehndorf / Kanzlerfeld , from 2002 to 2004 in public relations at the provost of Braunschweig with part-time work in religious instruction and from 2004 to 2013 at St. Petri in Braunschweig. After completing an additional qualification in 2007 as a pastoral psychological advisor and supervisor (German Society for Pastoral Psychology / Depth Psychology Section), from 2009 she was also a pastoral psychological advisor and supervisor of her regional church and lecturer for pastoral care at the preacher's seminar .

From April 2013 she was the successor of Marita Krüger regional bishop of the Propstsprengels Meiningen-Suhl of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany based in Meiningen . In 2015 she was elected to the leadership of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD). She is a member of the 12th synod of the EKD .

In 2018 she was proposed together with the Hamburg provost Karl-Heinrich Melzer as a candidate to succeed Regional Bishop Gerhard Ulrich . In the election during the autumn meeting of the synod in Lübeck Cathedral on September 27, 2018, Kühnbaum-Schmidt achieved the required majority in the first ballot with 90 out of 150 votes. She took office on April 1, 2019.

Kühnbaum-Schmidt was elected Deputy Head Bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) in November 2019 . She is the representative of the leading bishop Ralf Meister and succeeds Carsten Rentzing , who resigned as regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony in October.

Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt is married to Pastor Güntzel Schmidt. The couple has a grown daughter.

Publications

• "... but with imagination and energy you will be able to conquer many new things." The long road to ordaining women in the Braunschweig regional church. In: With imagination and energy. 30 years of ordination for women in the Ev.-luth. Regional church in Braunschweig. Edited by Ulrike Block-von Schwartz on behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Office. Landeskirche Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1998, pp. 9–61.
• Short biographies Dorothea Sophie Hamann , Doris Gassmann . In: Hannelore Erhart (ed.): Lexicon of early Protestant theologians. Biographical sketches. Neukirchen 2005.
• A discussion group for war children born between 1930 and 1945. In: Transformations. Pastoral Psychological Workshop Reports 11 (2009), pp. 72-133.
• The desire to remember and the pain of memory. In: Dieter Rammler / Michael Strauss (eds.): Church building in National Socialism. Examples from the Brunswick regional church. Braunschweig 2009, pp. 74-86.

  also in: Transformations 13 (2010/11), p.

• Women in Braunschweig Church History. In: From the baptism of the Saxons to the church in Lower Saxony. History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig. Edited by Prof. Dr. Friedrich Weber, Birgit Hofmann, Hans-Jürgen Engelking, Braunschweig 2010, pp. 601–625.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt elected future regional bishop. Report of the North Church from September 27, 2018, accessed on February 21, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt , accessed on September 28, 2018
3. ↑ Former Brunswick pastor becomes bishop in Lübeck , Wolfenbütteler Zeitung of September 28, 2018, accessed on September 28, 2018
4. ↑ Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt and Karl-Heinrich Melzer are standing for election as regional bishop / regional bishop of the Northern Church , report from the Northern Church of May 24, 2018, accessed on September 28, 2018 /
5. ↑ Election of State Bishop Kühnbaum-Schmidt is the new Deputy Head Bishop of the VELKD. Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church), November 7, 2019, accessed on November 8, 2019 .